According to the always-credible Rob Liefeld, an X-Force movie has been in the works for some time over at Fox. X-Force is of course the grimacing, shoulder pad-laden ’90s X-Men spin-off team led by time traveller Cable. Unfortunately for fans of ’80s hair and giant laser cannons, it seems as though Fox’s decision to follow Days of Future Past with X-Men: Apocalypse has thrown plans for an X-Force movie into disarray. Here’s what Rob said on Twitter…

Cable is probably the reason for everything changing. Cable has a lot of history with Apocalypse, so any movie about Apocalypse is probably going to pouch, er I mean, poach a lot of X-Force material. That said, Liefeld wouldn’t outright confirm that Cable would be in X-Men: Apocalypse…

The X-Force movie is probably being pushed back, but I’m sure it’ll happen eventually. They probably need extra time to do all the CGI — I mean, there’s no way regular human actors are going to be able to play Rob Liefeld characters.

Jesus that gun looks like an MC Escher design. I love how Liefeld can just go “I want the gun to be rectangle shaped” and then “I want the end to be a big circle” and he just have zero concern about parsing those two together

but please tell me the Youngblood movie is still on. staring such classic Liefeld creations as guy who kinda looks like Wolverine, black Cable, and not Mystique also staring gray version of the Thing and Bow and Arrow guy.